I was so disappointed when i was told to 'express myself' and given a multitude of art supplies at university. I was excited to learn how to really draw and paint in oils but that's too hard i guess.
Your content is great brother. I am a college graduate in fine art, turned carpenter, and have gleaned so much from a few videos of how you approach your work. Keep sharing your way because it’s impactful.
You share so many key insights about the artistic process in such few sentences. You are a terrific art educator. Thanks for speaking honestly and not pandering to people's egos.
Amen. I try to talk about this a lot. Art (production art) isn’t as magically subjective as many view it. There are really practical and objective principles (which you teach so well). Many on the outside treat it as this inspired precious gift you either have or don’t. That mentality is really insulting to people like yourself that’ve spent countless hours learning and practicing.
I was taught to draw, but I was never taught to render or understand light, and I was never taught how to stylize properly, I was only taught that all my efforts at stylization failed, anime is always bad, and I was never good enough to achieve realism. So I’m in my thirties with an animation degree unable to get a job, feeling like I don’t know how to do anything and I don’t have a style because it was all beaten out of me before I could find one and hone it.
Damn I’m glad he said that, I looked back at my old paintings and they look better than my current paintings. But the difference is in my newer paintings, I am focusing on utilizing the fundamentals. In my older paintings I was just doing what bad habits felt the most comfortable
@@Cyliandre441 it’s sort of like if you can play one song on guitar. That doesn’t necessarily make you a good musician? Sure you can speed years perfecting one song, but if someone tells you to play a Jazz 2 -5 -1 in the key of E.. you won’t be able to adapt on the spot. That’s what makes art beautiful, is the ability to have variation
@@matthewW97 If you've only ever played one piece of music the problem might not just be lacking fundamentals but being exposed to and moving inside a severely limited range of tastes and ideas.
Are you telling me the concept of "expertise" WASNT just created by "The Man" to stifle the identity and creativity of forlorn youth?? I may need to check my ego, and accept humility for the *potential* to learn and improve?? That sounds like alot of work. I think I'll just retain my position that all opinions are equal, then I can never be wrong (though sadly, the corollary is: noone can ever be right... so we MAY have trouble getting anything done).
Why do I barely see anyone being more creative with these skills then? Why do unskilled artists often portray more interesting concepts when technique and fundamentals are apparently all thats important? So often when artists show how they "improved" they've just made their art more boring. There are more things, more important things, to art than technical skill. Just because companies want it doesn't mean its actually good.
Because of your own bias. You just wrote off every artist from Craig Mullins, to leyendecker, to Velasquez, to polykleitos. These skills are the basis of all representational art
"There is no right or wrong". Buddhist bull* only guiding away from the godly plan we can take a part in if we only were able to discern what is right and wrong.
Dude I like you but I just disagree with this gross trad fetish that has gripped YT. I see amazing work all the time in galleries and museums that clearly doesn’t pay attention to what you would call the fundamentals and it rules. Perhaps its aims are loftier than verisimilitude, or its refusal to engage in that struggle opens up other fruitful possibilities or pathways.
If you wanna play in an orchestra or band, but can’t play the instrument, they will laugh at you. No one will take you seriously. So why has this been allowed with painting? There is a process to things. You need to crawl to learn how to stand and walk. You don’t just walk! People just don’t want to put any work into anything. Always searching for shortcuts or creating them. To some things there simply are no shortcut and painting is one of them.
So it's all just about gatekeeping, then. There are several ways to play an instrument, there are even more ways to make art. Claiming one is right and all others are invalid is just being elitist and exclusionary.
